Bouvier-Patron, Paul,
Frugal innovation and innovative creation / Paul Bouvier-Patron. - 1 online resource. - - Innovation, entrepreneurship, management series. Smart innovation set ; volume 40. . - Innovation, entrepreneurship, management series. Smart innovation set ; v. 40. .
Table of Contents
Introduction ix
Chapter 1 Natural Environment, Positive Private Goods and Consequentism 1
1.1 Management of negative externalities 12
1.1.1 Managing irreversible negative externalities: trade and markets, governance and choice 13
1.1.2 Decentralized regulation 22
1.2 Private decision and consequentism 23
1.2.1 Consequentism 25
1.2.2 Internalization of consequentism as the best remedy 26
1.2.3 Consequentism for the technological object and the adopter's system of objects 31
1.2.4 Carbon accounting: solution or illusion? 33
1.3 Positive private goods and consequentist calculation 41
1.3.1 Positive private good 42
1.3.2 Methodological comparison 45
1.3.3 Discussion on the applicability of the calculation 46
1.4 Conclusion 50
Chapter 2 FabLab: Creation and Design through Technology? 53
2.1 The major form of contemporary industrial organization 57
2.1.1 The network form: NoF 57
2.1.2 The virtual form: extension of the NoF via ICT 60
2.2 FabLab: heterogeneous form or NoF reinforcement? 63
2.2.1 Definition of FabLab 63
2.2.2 FabLab and NoF compatibility 66
2.3 From extended NoF to the beginnings of a potential new industrial dynamic? 69
2.4 Conclusion 73
Chapter 3 Communitization of Technological Innovation: The Value and the Symbolic 77
3.1 New technological products: inter-organizational networks, business ecosystems and innovative communities 78
3.2 Places where innovation is created, practices of innovative communities, managerial and symbolic issues 83
3.2.1 Places and practices of innovative communities 83
3.2.2 Managerial issues of innovative communities 85
3.3 Virtualization and symbolic value in relation to its uses 88
3.3.1 Shift from value to symbolism 91
3.3.2 Systematized symbolic logic and community marker 94
3.4 Conclusion 96
Chapter 4 Technology and Symbolic Spectacle of Marking by Use 99
4.1 Community and virtualization: what individuation? 104
4.1.1 Activist practices of virtual communities and mimetic rivalry: viral marking 105
4.1.2 Limited otherness in the virtual immersion of the community self 110
4.2 Performance of immersive symbolic projection by marking the community self within the virtual community 112
4.2.1 From the technological offer to the symbolic marketing of the virtual self: avatar and the profession of the self 113
4.2.2 Role dream symbolism and marking the community self 116
4.3 Conclusion 119
4.3.1 Exceeding: beyond the virtual 120
4.3.2 Virtual influencer: an illustration by the case of Lil Miquela 122
Chapter 5 Back to Common Sense: Towards Frugal Environmental Innovation (FEI) 133
5.1 Definition and place of frugal innovation (FI) 135
5.1.1 Frugal innovation: contextualization and definition 135
5.1.2 Conceptual place of frugal innovation 138
5.2 Double challenge of the western firm: competitive and environmental advantage 140
5.2.1 Strategic scenarios 140
5.2.2 Environmental competitive advantage and frugal environmental innovation 142
5.3 Conclusion 145
Chapter 6 From Environmental Innovation (EI) to Frugal Environmental Innovation (FEI) 147
6.1 Environmental innovation (EI) 149
6.1.1 Corporate proactivity and EI 151
6.1.2 Proactivity and creativity: green entrepreneurship 152
6.2 Types of actors and diffusion of EI 153
6.2.1 Summit of the EI actor typology: creative and proactive 154
6.2.2 EI dissemination 155
6.3 Proposal of a strategic matrix to innovate 156
6.3.1 Irreversibility of negative externalities 157
6.3.2 Logic of sophistication and/or frugal approach? 158
6.3.3 Opting for frugal environmental innovation (FEI) 161
6.4 Conclusion 162
Chapter 7 Bricolage and Improvisation: Two Key Cogs of Innovative Creation 165
7.1 Bricolage as a concept 168
7.1.1 Bricolage: a new concept but an old practice 168
7.1.2 Is bricolage a matter of logic? 169
7.1.3 Bricolage and the current application of the concept 170
7.2 Bricolage as a key device for innovative creation 171
7.2.1 Bricolage and improvisation 172
7.2.2 Bricolage and frugal innovation 176
7.2.3 Synthetic view: conceptual map of innovative creation 179
7.3 Conclusion 181
Conclusion 185
Appendices 189
Appendix 1 191
Appendix 2 219
Appendix 3 221
References 235
Index 271
About the Author
Paul Bouvier-Patron is a lecturer and member of CERGAM, France. He is interested in the link between innovation management and sustainable development. His research focuses on the idea of an environmental frugal approach based on creativity, co-creation, improvisation and bricolage.
9781786306975 9781394236817 1394236816
10.1002/9781394236817 doi
Technological innovations.
Electronic books.
T173.8 / .B68 2023
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Frugal innovation and innovative creation / Paul Bouvier-Patron. - 1 online resource. - - Innovation, entrepreneurship, management series. Smart innovation set ; volume 40. . - Innovation, entrepreneurship, management series. Smart innovation set ; v. 40. .
Table of Contents
Introduction ix
Chapter 1 Natural Environment, Positive Private Goods and Consequentism 1
1.1 Management of negative externalities 12
1.1.1 Managing irreversible negative externalities: trade and markets, governance and choice 13
1.1.2 Decentralized regulation 22
1.2 Private decision and consequentism 23
1.2.1 Consequentism 25
1.2.2 Internalization of consequentism as the best remedy 26
1.2.3 Consequentism for the technological object and the adopter's system of objects 31
1.2.4 Carbon accounting: solution or illusion? 33
1.3 Positive private goods and consequentist calculation 41
1.3.1 Positive private good 42
1.3.2 Methodological comparison 45
1.3.3 Discussion on the applicability of the calculation 46
1.4 Conclusion 50
Chapter 2 FabLab: Creation and Design through Technology? 53
2.1 The major form of contemporary industrial organization 57
2.1.1 The network form: NoF 57
2.1.2 The virtual form: extension of the NoF via ICT 60
2.2 FabLab: heterogeneous form or NoF reinforcement? 63
2.2.1 Definition of FabLab 63
2.2.2 FabLab and NoF compatibility 66
2.3 From extended NoF to the beginnings of a potential new industrial dynamic? 69
2.4 Conclusion 73
Chapter 3 Communitization of Technological Innovation: The Value and the Symbolic 77
3.1 New technological products: inter-organizational networks, business ecosystems and innovative communities 78
3.2 Places where innovation is created, practices of innovative communities, managerial and symbolic issues 83
3.2.1 Places and practices of innovative communities 83
3.2.2 Managerial issues of innovative communities 85
3.3 Virtualization and symbolic value in relation to its uses 88
3.3.1 Shift from value to symbolism 91
3.3.2 Systematized symbolic logic and community marker 94
3.4 Conclusion 96
Chapter 4 Technology and Symbolic Spectacle of Marking by Use 99
4.1 Community and virtualization: what individuation? 104
4.1.1 Activist practices of virtual communities and mimetic rivalry: viral marking 105
4.1.2 Limited otherness in the virtual immersion of the community self 110
4.2 Performance of immersive symbolic projection by marking the community self within the virtual community 112
4.2.1 From the technological offer to the symbolic marketing of the virtual self: avatar and the profession of the self 113
4.2.2 Role dream symbolism and marking the community self 116
4.3 Conclusion 119
4.3.1 Exceeding: beyond the virtual 120
4.3.2 Virtual influencer: an illustration by the case of Lil Miquela 122
Chapter 5 Back to Common Sense: Towards Frugal Environmental Innovation (FEI) 133
5.1 Definition and place of frugal innovation (FI) 135
5.1.1 Frugal innovation: contextualization and definition 135
5.1.2 Conceptual place of frugal innovation 138
5.2 Double challenge of the western firm: competitive and environmental advantage 140
5.2.1 Strategic scenarios 140
5.2.2 Environmental competitive advantage and frugal environmental innovation 142
5.3 Conclusion 145
Chapter 6 From Environmental Innovation (EI) to Frugal Environmental Innovation (FEI) 147
6.1 Environmental innovation (EI) 149
6.1.1 Corporate proactivity and EI 151
6.1.2 Proactivity and creativity: green entrepreneurship 152
6.2 Types of actors and diffusion of EI 153
6.2.1 Summit of the EI actor typology: creative and proactive 154
6.2.2 EI dissemination 155
6.3 Proposal of a strategic matrix to innovate 156
6.3.1 Irreversibility of negative externalities 157
6.3.2 Logic of sophistication and/or frugal approach? 158
6.3.3 Opting for frugal environmental innovation (FEI) 161
6.4 Conclusion 162
Chapter 7 Bricolage and Improvisation: Two Key Cogs of Innovative Creation 165
7.1 Bricolage as a concept 168
7.1.1 Bricolage: a new concept but an old practice 168
7.1.2 Is bricolage a matter of logic? 169
7.1.3 Bricolage and the current application of the concept 170
7.2 Bricolage as a key device for innovative creation 171
7.2.1 Bricolage and improvisation 172
7.2.2 Bricolage and frugal innovation 176
7.2.3 Synthetic view: conceptual map of innovative creation 179
7.3 Conclusion 181
Conclusion 185
Appendices 189
Appendix 1 191
Appendix 2 219
Appendix 3 221
References 235
Index 271
About the Author
Paul Bouvier-Patron is a lecturer and member of CERGAM, France. He is interested in the link between innovation management and sustainable development. His research focuses on the idea of an environmental frugal approach based on creativity, co-creation, improvisation and bricolage.
9781786306975 9781394236817 1394236816
10.1002/9781394236817 doi
Technological innovations.
Electronic books.
T173.8 / .B68 2023
601